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The  
Team

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Welcome to the No Sleep Team, Learn more about our directors and collaborators from past and present of the No Sleep Journey

Directors

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Dylan Davies

Co-Director / Performer

Dylan began his training with BoysDancing projects and has trained on the DanceXchange CADT programme and 2 Faced Dance youth. Dylan has performed in outdoor works including; Cubes with 2Faced dance at IDFB 2016 and Mesmerist with Northern Rascals for the Leeds Light Night Parade in 1019. Since the pandemic, Dylan has taken an interest in screendance where one of his most recent works was screened at Smithfields during the commonwealth games 2022 and has also training in breaking to further versatility in the body. Dylan graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance with a first-class BA Hons in Contemporary Dance 2022, and a Master of Arts in the Professional Placement Scheme with Motionhouse. Dylan is now a Motionhouse dance circus dancer touring company repetoire UK and internationally.

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Jules Young

Co-Director / Performer

Jules Young is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator, technician and circus rigger, specialising in dance theatre. He graduated from the Northern school of Contemporary dance in 2022 and went on to tour with their postgraduate performance company VERVE in 2023 performing works by Faye Tan, Kor’sia and Sharon Watson. Originally from South Wales, he performed self-choreographed works at Green Man festival in the years between 2015-18 and No Sleep company works in 2019, 2022, 2023 & 2024. He has performed his solo work Orpheus at FlockFest 22 and Durham Fringe and created new work on Ace youth company with Kachal Blumer. Alongside dance Jules has extensive experience as a lighting designer/technician for CULTVR, Blake Theatre, Orla Hardie and Lost Dog Dance. Jules Young works as a technical stage manager for Theatr Iolo and Human’s Move. He has performed works by Ransack Dance company, Kim Noble & Elle-Kate, Kitsch & Sync, Krystal Lowe and Toussaint To Move. Jules now trains in aerial rope and partner acrobatics to support his dance training.

Collaborators

Produce. Create. Perform.

We've been fortunate to work with so many great people in the past few years. Here is to some of the people that make it happen:

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